Business Trends: The big data tools and related professional competencies required in the chemical industry

Ashiff Khan is a Lead Engineer for Saudi Aramco, handling process engineering, projects and master plans. He has more than 19 yr of experience in the chemical industry, and has three filed patents in the U.S. In addition to multiple advanced degrees, post-graduate diplomas, international certifications, and doctorates, including an MS degree in data science from Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, Dr. Khan also conducts research in business management as part of his doctoral studies at the SP Jain School of Global Management in Australia.

Mohammad Manzoor is a Lead Engineer for the utilities, WIP and cogeneration (COGEN) plants at the Saudi Aramco Khurais central processing facility in Saudi Arabia. He is a chartered chemical engineer with more than 18 yr of experience working as a process engineer. Mr. Manzoor earned a BEng degree in chemical engineering and a post-graduate degree in computing from the University of Bradford in the UK. He is also working toward an MS degree in data science at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.